Claim · 2011-03 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Mackay and Brassier's introduction to Fanged Noumena names Land's “Meltdown”, “Hypervirus” and “No Future”.

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Editors' Introduction (Fanged Noumena) → cites → Meltdown

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Editors' Introduction (Fanged Noumena)cites ↓Meltdown

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Date: 2011-03 · publication Records dated 2011 →

Scope and limitsA naming records that the later text names the earlier; it is not agreement, influence or lineage beyond what the passage states. The introduction does not date 'Meltdown' in the passages read.

The evidence 01

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Editors' Introduction (Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007)

Urbanomic / Sequence Press; the introduction posted as a PDF on the publisher's book page · 2011-03

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Source excerpt

“In texts like ‘Meltdown’, ‘Hypervirus’, and ‘No Future’, Land shifts from a register in which his attacks on philosophy’s critical protocols still complied with established norms of academic discourse”

Location in source Editors' introduction, PDF p. 27

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-01

Source details and check notes

Authors: Robin Mackay; Ray Brassier
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 3929bd0072b6837ea544a53e31ec51c1c09ae7dc5aa5865b20a9091127f794e7). Publisher's PDF of the editors' introduction; the book page lists the original edition as March 2011 and later editions (2012, 2017, 2018); which edition the PDF reproduces is not stated.
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Accessed: 2026-10-31
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Robin Mackay, Ray Brassier, “Editors' Introduction (Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007)”, 2011-03.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (29 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 153) re-read the source and agreed that the passage names the earlier text or author. No human editorial review.

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Date. Urbanomic's book page lists the original edition as 'Paperback, Mar 2011'; the posted PDF does not state its edition.

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